SqueakBox is under Personal Attacks parole according to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/SqueakBox and Zapatancas#SqueakBox and Zapatancas . He has posted the following in his user page ( [1]): "[My main successes has been ...] restoring José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero from the POV of another user who claims to write about saints but who is determined to slur him." One of the meanings of "Hagiographer" is that, a person who writes about saints, so that paragraph is clearly an attack against me, as it's pure libel. In fact, my only activity in regard to the Zapatero article has been to revert vandalism. Hagiographer 12:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Instantnood ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction of some sort. The final decision in their case is here: [2].
This line should be a clear and brief summary. Three or four sentences at most.
This move/redirect war has been going on for months. It needs to end. Instantnood is supporting himself by endless bickering across a dozen talk pages but it's him against the world.
Reported by:
SchmuckyTheCat 20:05, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I am reporting a series of repearted incidents regarding the user called Deathrocker. This user was recently banned for removing sourced information from articles, and for making personal attacks at people who do not have accounts. This user is also on revert parole from an arbirrition case that led to him being banned for three months. This user is using a serious of ip adresses to revert any user, anmynous or registered, including admins, that change anything on articles he deems as 'his' claiming it as vandalism or restricted user changes [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]. He also just used an ip to delete someones post from an anymonous users talk page and instead leave a personal attack [12].
The point in referring this is that these ips should be checked against his account. It may also be neccesary to inforce a prolonged ban with this user from these articles, as he has grown into a habit of calling admin abuse when he is banned (see arbirittion case evidence and findings of fact), and removing large sections of text written by others on article discussion pages, claiming they are banned users. He has even done this to an admin, claiming admin abuse when the admin reverted him. This is on top of the persistant violations of his parole regarding personal attacks and using sockpuppets to perform massive reverts, which he openly admits to being his by signing them as himself [13].
This user is becoming a series tire to many users in the community, with many times admins refusing to deal with the user due to his claims of admin abuse when incidents are reported. This user also openly refuses to follow policy or respect that he does not own Wikipedia, and that articles are not just his, they are to reflect the opinions and points of all people, claiming in multiple instances that he can refuse to let others edit articles because he said so.
Here is his user contributions to give example of his estronous violations or revert parole across a series of articles [14]. He also states here on his userpage he is a sockcatcher, even though he was banned for making this account and posting this personal attack against another user. [15].
Of note also, is is that he has twice used two ips to blank a users comment from someones talk page for praising the work done by that user, leaving a personal attack, signing it as himself [16], [17].
Wether this users parole needs to revised, or more closely inforced is a matter for AE to decide. Im just reporting this user and his sock farm, as he is seriously damaging the community. Serial thrillers 17:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
The bottom line here is there is no evidence to support taking any action. The IPs provided by Leyasu are mostly from New Brunswick, Canada. I can't find any verified information on Deathrocker's location, but this checkuser case, which was returned inconclusive, compared him with a kid who uses a U.S. e-mail address and an Australian ISP. It's hard to see how that request could be inconclusive if Deathrocker was a New Brunswicker, so I have to conclude that either he has found some open proxies or there is a Death metal fan in N.B. who knows about the arbitration case. (Similarly, while Leyasu is known to edit from British Telecom, the IP addresses that has provided at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Leyasu as being improperly reverted are from completely different parts of the world, suggesting that Leyasu has also found some open proxies or has some imitators.) There just isn't enough evidence to support taking action against Deathrocker at this time. Thatcher131 (talk) 00:16, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
LossIsNotMore ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been blocked for a week for disrupting Talk:Uranium trioxide and is editing using LossIsNotMore-ur ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) to evade his ban. Dr Zak 03:29, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/SqueakBox and Zapatancas. Puts this troll bait notice here to try and force SqueakBox to break his block. It is also a personal attack on SqueakBox, which Hagiographer is banned from doing, as well as being a blatant disruption of wikipedia. I suspect I am not alone in being outraged at this attack on a fine academic by an individualo who spends all hhis time on wikipedia pursuing a vendetta, and spoiling the encyclopedia in the process, and I am editing this encyclopedia because of the bemirsching of this article. Relator 23:56, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Arbitration case: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/SqueakBox and Zapatancas#SqueakBox and Zapatancas . SqueakBox is blocked until September 22 in all the Wikipedia as he did not respect the ban imposed upon him by the mentioned arbitration case (see his block log). However, he edited the Wikipedia on September 2 ( here). Probably, because when Tony Sidaway blocked him the last time he didn't chose the "correct type of block". SqueakBox's ban has to be restarted as a consequence ensuring this time that he's banned from all the Wikipedia. Hagiographer 06:58, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Response Blocked users are permitted to edit their own talk pages. In reviewing the situation, I find the charge by Squeakbox that you altered his signature to that of a user you suspected of being his sockpuppet. Regardless of your suspicions, this was dishonest bordering on vandalism, and if I had seen it at the time I would have blocked you for it. As it was more than 2 weeks ago, and blocks are supposed to be preventative, not punative, consider this a stern warning. The fact that Squeakbox is blocked does not give you the right to abuse the situation, and your suspicions that he has dishonestly used sockpuppets does not give you the right to be dishonest in return. Thatcher131 (talk) 00:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Terryeo ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction of some sort. The final decision in their case is here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Terryeo#Final decision.
Terryeo is under an injunction not to engage in personal attacks, for which he was banned from the Scientology-related articles. Unfortunately he has continued to post innuendo about other users, using Wikipedia policy pages in an ongoing campaign. I have invited him to withdraw his attack on Raymond Hill but he has, regrettably, refused. I recommend a block, as he doesn't seem to have got the message that this is not an appropriate way to interact with other Wikipedians, and his continued misconduct is poisoning the atmosphere on a number of talk pages. (Disclaimer: I brought the original arbitration against Terryeo.) -- ChrisO 13:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I concur with ChrisO's statement. In fact, this is not an isolated instance of personal attack from Terryeo after being put on attack probation.-- Fahrenheit451 14:50, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Terryeo is making false accusations and is advised to cease.-- Fahrenheit451 00:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Not when those "online convenience links" are used to promote controversial, partison and biased websites, like the one Andries was a former webmaster for and is currently the "Main Representative, Contact and Supervisor" for. SSS108 talk- email 05:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
(For the record). See the long thread at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Dbiv and Peter Tatchell for a discussion of what to do about User:Dbiv, who has ignored the recent ArbCom ruling against him. Batmanand | Talk 21:47, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Eternal Equinox ( talk · contribs) is under Probation for one year. The final decision in their case is here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Eternal_Equinox#Final_decision.
EE is disrupting the Cool (song) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) article and its talk page Talk:Cool (song) ( | [[Talk:Talk:Cool (song)|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), which is in violation of remedy #1 of the ArbCom ruling on him: "Should they, editing under any username disrupt any page, they may be banned from that page for a brief period of time, up to a week in the event of repeat offenses."
EE's recent behaviour on this article is part of the reason why an RFAr was filed to begin with, and it's apparent that he's unwilling to change it. He considers the "Cool" article his own "baby", to be treated differently from other articles, under the control of nobody but himself (see [27] and [28]). The above description and diffs only scratch the surface; he's been edit warring on this article for months. I'm involved in this dispute, which is why I haven't temporarily banned him from this article myself.
Reported by: Extraordinary Machine 14:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Ban fully rejected. Extraordinary Machine uses excuses to introduce infactualty, nonsense that some edits are too "rich", and other ideas that my edits do not meet Wikipedia-stylized policies. Claims I have been using sock puppets (I have no idea who the 68 IP range is), and thinks I have been editing disruptively while touting the excuse "things have to be [his] way" and "it's my baby". This is ridiculous. This was actually not removed intentionally; we had an edit conflict and without surprise, Bunchofgrapes assumes (yet again) that I removed it purposely. Oh yawn, these users are beginning to grow so dull. They claim I am hard to work with again; from my view, EM is far too difficult to work with and doesn't agree with any of my views and has been recklessly reverting me as much as I am recklessly reverting him. Bunchofgrapes fails to notice this and pinpoints that only I am the cause of this issue. As a result and because here (bother to read it), I actually tried to compromise our situation and two arguments were resolved. Because I am trying to meet both our standards, and because Bunchofgrapes is stalking me after I told him to leave me alone, this ban is rejected. I sense nothing but bias.
As it currently stands, I have nothing more to edit for the day, which reprieves me somewhat. I will edit if I need to in the next "48 hours" though. 64.231.154.3 21:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
User_talk:Tony_Sidaway#Need_Help and User_talk:Tony_Sidaway#Biographies_of_living_people Andries 00:25, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
User:Hagiographer has created a new sockpuppet in defiance of his personal attack ban. [29]. Note the attack opn SqueakBox, the reference to Roberto weiss, whose article Hagiographer has already vandfdalised and his disgusting and deeply rascist reference to squeakBox's user page which Hagiographer has shown an unhealthy obsession with. I trust this depply offensive rasciost user will now be blocked. Relator 18:46, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
The block to implement the 6 month ban occured at 05:20, 31 July 2006 UTC, so its not been 6 months yet, and they are still banned. To enforce the arbitration committee's ban on the user, the accounts identified by checkuser should be blocked as an attempt at evading the ban:
Kevin_b_er 03:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Messhermit has been edit waring at the Alberto Fujimori article, while on probation: Messhermit placed on Probation for one year. Accordingly, could I request that he is no longer allowed to edit this article? Thanks, Addhoc 11:04, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
A recent Arb Comm decision Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Warren_Kinsella found that User:Arthur Ellis (aka User:Mark Bourrie, User:Ceraurus, etc., and many Ottawa IPs) used socks for tendentious editing and disruption. He was indefinitely banned from articles on Canadian politics, including Warren Kinsella and any article that mentions it. Today, two IPs 142.78.190.137 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and 64.230.111.172 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), both of which are consistent with Ellis' venues and manner (see here), defaced the Arb Comm page [67] and edited both Warren Kinsella [68] and Mark Bourrie [69] (which is covered by the ban). I reverted and protected the ArbComm decision, but given that I am involved in a new Arb Comm case involving the same editor would prefer to leave the matter to the judgement of another admin. Buck ets ofg✐ 18:14, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Bucketsofg and Thatcher's admin careers are nearing an end. See Request for Arbitration: Rachel Marsden. Don't get involved, folks. These guys are gone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.230.118.25 ( talk • contribs)
The article on Kosovo is experiencing ongoing sockpuppetry and repeated violations of an Arbitration Committee injunction. A number of ultranationalist editors are trying to change the intro to a version which asserts their (decidedly non-mainstream) POV and wipes out many other innocuous changes, such as a gallery and interwiki links. The article is currently under an ArbCom injunction, but Vezaso ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has repeatedly violated it with sockpuppet edits, so far using Dardanv ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), Palmucha ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Semarforikuq ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Kushtrimxh ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has also broken the injunction today. Vezaso sockpuppets are the main thing to look out for - if you see it being reverted to this version by a newly created user, that's almost certainly Vezaso again. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kosovo#Log of blocks and bans lists the scorecard so far. I would encourage people to add Kosovo to their watchlists to keep an eye on the situation. -- ChrisO 23:54, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
In the Encyclopaedia Metallum ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), the user Deathrocker keeps on reverting the page. He's under parole, was blocked for one day, and already reverted the page a few times after his bloc expired. Pretty much anything other users do to change his edits he calls vandalism, so all his reverts are legit, because he's fixing vandalism! The discussions with him are very long and fruitless, and I've tried all ways to reach a consensus with him (See the discussion page, last topic "A new start"), I've tried to edit the page including a mix of his edits and mine, but he always chooses to "fix vandalism" and revert the page. Thanks. Evenfiel 13:34, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Hipi Zhdripi ( talk · contribs) is under an Arbitration Committee injunction not to make disruptive edits in Kosovo or related pages. The notice of injunction is here.
Since the injunction came into force, it has repeatedly been violated by Hipi Zhdripi using anonymous IP addresses starting 172.* (dynamic IPs at his ISP) - see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kosovo/Evidence#Editors involved after start of Arbitration. His violations of the injunction are becoming increasingly frequent (at least daily now), and in addition a number of other mostly anonymous users (nationalists on both sides) have disrupted and vandalised the article repeatedly. Assistance would be appreciated in monitoring the article during the ongoing arbitration.
Reported by: ChrisO 23:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Intangible ( talk · contribs) - case: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Intangible.
Could someone have a look at the recent edits at Vlaams Belang and Bloed-Bodem-Eer en Trouw, especially the latter. I feel I'm being drawn into an edit war with Intangible again. In the latter article, he keeps removing a paragraph linking the neo nazi organisation with the Vlaams Belang, very loosely based indeed on WP:V. Thanks. Please have a word with him.
[74], [75] and [76]. (You'll find my two reverts inbetween those three.) -- LucVerhelst 18:01, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Could someone please have a friendly word with him ? Please ? [82], [83], [84], here he seems to have realised he couldn't go on on the first track, deciding to try something new : [85], [86] -- LucVerhelst 21:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
One more : [88] -- LucVerhelst 10:39, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
And these maybe on the BBET article [89], [90] and on the Neo-Nazism article [91] -- LucVerhelst 10:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
FIY, Intangible also seems to be involved in Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Neo-Fascism. -- LucVerhelst 08:25, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I feel I have been personally attacked by Intangible at [94] and [95]. I left a {{npa2}} template on his talk page. -- LucVerhelst 20:12, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Today I left the {{npa3}} template on his talk page, now I see he archived his entire talk page. Is this appropriate ? -- LucVerhelst 22:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm starting to get the feeling that Intangible is now showing behaviour that could constitute trolling. Especially when looking at Talk:Bloed, Bodem, Eer en Trouw, or this edit. Could someone look into this aspect, and confirm or deny my feeling ? Thank you. -- LucVerhelst 20:19, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Another example.-- LucVerhelst 08:28, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't see anything worth taking action for yet. Intangible's calling some of your comments "nonsense" is personal, and a mild personal attack. But the two remedies available are to block him (per the usual blocking policy), or to ban him from the articles in question (per the arbitration decision). These comments wouldn't deserve a block from another user and I'm not convinced they should in this case. Also, repeatedly tagging experienced users with {npa} templates is often viewed as not a very nice thing to do, and you certainly don't need to edit war over their removal. A few nice words is often enough, and if not, then at least you've got nothing negative on your account. Otherwise, the article talk page comments look like two people with a content dispute who have stopped listening to each other. I don't yet see any trolling.
An article ban is a blunt instrument and I'm also not sure at this time that it is warranted. Let me explain why. Although arbitration decisions deal with user behavior, I have looked into the content dispute underlying this situation. There seems to be an effort to link the Belgian political party BBET with an American professor from a fringe white supremacist movement. This is based on a French language report that in turn is drawn from sources including the professor's remarks published in an obscure 24 page 3-times a year white supremacist newsletter. The newsletter is not online but the article is copied on a blog and on BBET's web site. Technically, WP:RS policy stands behind the newspaper. The allegations that the newspaper mistranslated the professor's remarks are poorly supported since the blog and BBET site they are cached on could have been altered. No one has produced a scan of a paper copy of the newsletter that could definitively impeach the newspaper. If such a copy were produced, it would not mean the newsletter was an RS, but it would cast strong doubt on the La Libre story.
However, I question the propriety of including the claim at all, even if it is sourced per policy. This is a classic example of attempting to prove guilt by association. I'm not sure why it is necessary to try and associate a Belgian political party with a fringe American to discredit it; would we include in an article on the US Democratic Party the fact that some party officials may have been visited by a fringe French or Belgian politician who was so obscure that the visit wasn't written about for two years? Surely there are sufficient Belgian sources to write an encyclopedia article about the activities of a Belgian political party in Belgium without having to rely on guilt by association through a single questioned newspaper article. I would strongly advice you to knock off the guilt-by-association unless you have more evidence of significant contacts between BBET and American white supremacists.
Regarding Abromowitz, I wonder about a "journalist" founding an advocacy web site. American journalists aren't generally allowed to be members of advocacy groups, much less be founders. You need to be very careful in selecting sources that are reporting, not advocacy (for example, newspaper articles, but not editorials) and a reporter who is also an advocate presents a real problem.
Intangible has been sanctioned for engaging "in tendentious editing which minimizes the neo-fascist tendencies of [nationalist or right wing European political] parties." But this case is a poor example of this and does not yet (in my opinion) rise to the level of a ban. Develop better sources, and avoid guilt by association. Things BBET said or did are vastly more powerful than who they have associated with. I didn't really want to analyze the content dispute but I did; hopefully this will prove helpful to any other admin who reviews the situation. Thatcher131 04:41, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Please check out this diff, with this comment : "removed per http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/515, anything cochez writes about Belien is pretty much bull". He removes content, that is based on articles from one of the country's quality newspapers, and refers for his removal to a web log. How am I supposed to react to this ? -- LucVerhelst 15:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee has found User:Tonycdp conducting personal attacks against User:Asterion in Spanish (can be seen at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kosovo/Workshop#Personal_attack_by_Tonycdp). He is being found disruptive by the ArbCom ( User:Dmcdevit, User:Fred_Bauder, User:The_Epopt, User:Jayjg and User:Jdforrester) at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kosovo/Proposed_decision#Tonycdp_is_disruptive. I will now quote the decision of the ArbCom that was approved by the ArbCom on 14 September 2006: For the duration of this case, any of the named parties may be banned by an uninvolved administrator from Kosovo or related pages for disruptive edits. Tonycdp is a party in the Arbitration over the Kosovo article (see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kosovo#Involved_parties). He has made articles called Southern North Kosovo and West Kosovo and according to this diff disrupted the Wikipedia violating Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. I will now quote User:Consumed_Crustacean from User_talk:Tonycdp#WP:POINT: ..you may be placed on a ban from Kosovo and related articles while the arbitration case is underway. Consider that ban now active, thanks to these edits of yours. It will be lifted once the case is over, and whatever decision they make will take its place. If you create or edit any articles related to Kosovo, you will be blocked (by myself or another administrator) from editing the Wikipedia for some period of time. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 16:16, 29 September 2006 (UTC) He was thus banned from Kosovo-related articles on 29 September 2006 and the Arbitration on Kosovo still lasts. However, he violated the ban, editing Kosovo in 09:44, 3 October 2006. Then he edited Dardania (Europe) in 10:17, 3 October 2006 (which is a part of the History of Kosovo series). And then he edited Priština (capital city of Kosovo) in 10:20, 3 October 2006. I do not know if this can be applied to talk pages, but he has edited Talk:Kosovo in 09:51, 3 October 2006, 10:06, 3 October 2006, 10:26, 3 October 2006 and 15:40, 3 October 2006. According to the instructions of the administrator who banned him ( User:Consumed_Crustacean) - he is to be blocked if he violates the ban, which he did. -- PaxEquilibrium 19:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Infinity0 ( talk · contribs) is on a revert parole, however he again started to engage in edit warring on Anarchism ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) [105], [106], [107]. -- Vision Thing -- 22:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Highways, SPUI is on probation, and he can be blocked for disrupting a page. It is obvious that this, this, and this is disruption of a page. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 02:09, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Irishpunktom ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction; he is not allowed to revert more than one article per week, per this decision: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Irishpunktom#Irishpunktom_placed_on_revert_parole
In fact, Irishpunktom has been regularly reverting editors, though tending to keep it to one revert per article per day or two. As most people are not aware of the severity of his restrictions, he has been getting away with it. Jayjg (talk) 17:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Messhermit ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction; he is banned from editing the Alberto Fujimori entry. Moreover, he has continued personally attacking me Bdean1963 23 October 2006 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.45.129.106 ( talk • contribs)
I would like to request that we put this on hold for a day. I have filed an extensive complaint accusing Messhermit of being behind seven IP addresses at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Messhermit. Every single one of these IP addresses has edited Alberto Fujimori. If it turns out that these IP addresses are indeed run by Messhermit, it would be a grave breach of his ban from editing Alberto Fujimori, and we would have to move foward on that. Let's wait until a decision is made on those IPs, though. -- Descendall 09:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
In July, I was placed on probation as part of the decision in this RfA. I do not believe this decision was just, and I have chosen not to participate as an editor at Wikipedia rather than continue editing while subject to an unjust probation. In the nearly four months since that decision, I believe, subsequent events have demonstrated rather starkly that arbitrator Fred Bauder's initial assessment of the cause of the dispute was correct, and that JohnnyBGood, Rschen7754, and I should never have been placed on probation in relation to this matter. In addition, the underlying dispute has been harmoniously resolved, which suggests that the need for probation, assuming such need ever existed in the first place, has now ended. Accordingly, I request that this probation be formally lifted. Thank you. — phh ( t/ c) 00:40, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm starting a new subject header because this is totally independent of Bdean1963's complaint that Messhermit is uncivil.
Messhermit was placed on probation and banned from editing articles about the conflict between Peru and Ecuador (See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Messhermit). However, he continued to edit Paquisha War, a war between Peru and Ecuador, as User:147.70.124.109 [108].
As part of his probation, Messhermit was banned from editing Alberto Fujimori [109]. However, he edited that article fifteen times after he was informed of the ban: once as User:147.70.153.139 [110], once as User:74.225.187.18 [111], once as User:147.70.153.117 [112], twice as User:65.2.103.216 [113] [114], three times as User:147.70.124.59 [115] [116] [117], three times as User:74.225.227.204 [118] [119] [120], three times as User:68.215.109.135 [121] [122] [123], and once under his own name [124].
Please note that all of these IPs addresses have been confirmed as his at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Messhermit.
Even if he wasn't banned from editing these articles, he would still be edit warring.
Because these edits constiture such blatant and persistant violations of his arbitration and probation, I think something ought to be done. -- Descendall 00:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
A user that has had more than one account, one being User:Nobs01, one being User:Nobs, and perhaps some others with the letters "Nobs" in them was banned by ArbCom - Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Nobs01_and_others. He is not supposed to edit until December. However, I have noticed IPs which are editing the same area of interest Nobs was always interested in, in the same slant Nobs always edited in, namely the idea that every other liberal in the US from the 1930s to the 1950s in the US was a Soviet spy.
All of the Nobs-like edits have been coming from the IP range 4.240.x.x, some from 4.240.123.x, some from 4.240.186.x. I've also seen a few from other 4.240.x.x ranges that look like him
Probable Nobs ones I've seen so far -
IP's: [125] [126] [127] [128] [129] [130] [131]
If you compare Nobs01's edits to the edits from users from the IP range they use the same type of language and have the same odd obsessions (COINTELPRO proves everyone was a spy, citing Haynes and Klehr all the time etc.) Having dealt with Nobs so much, I know this is him, but for those not as familiar, you will probably have to do some comparing. I am also fairly confident that there are 4.240.x.x IPs I have missed that he is using. Ruy Lopez 23:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
TDC ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction of some sort. The final decision in their case is here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Depleted_uranium#TDC_placed_on_revert_parole.
"TDC is hereby limited to 1 content revert per article per day and must discuss all content reverts on the relevant talk page for one year. He may be briefly blocked for up to a week for violations. After 5 such blocks the maximum block time increases to a year."
I believe this user has willfully engaged in disruptive and antagonistic behavior, the kind explicitly advised against by the new WP:DE#Dealing_with_disruptive_editors guideline. He has done so more than once and been warned since he was put on parole; see more violations. I didn't realize the seriousness of the matter until I read his talk page, where I also see a lot of fishing for votes. I see five violations after a casual read...what will it take to stop a determined vandal?
Reported by: [[ Xiner 03:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)|Xiner]]
A new edit war has started over the introducion of the Kosovo ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) article (which is under article probation: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kosovo#Kosovo related articles on Article probation). It involves quite a number of editors, some of which have reverted each other multiple times (below are only the editors which reverted more than once):
Removing introduction text multiple times:
Adding introduction text multiple times:
Perhaps an administrator can have a look at this and take appropriate action, the arbitration case dealt specifically with revert warring on the introduction of that article, although none of these editors was involved at that time. These three editors have been informed of this report on their talk pages. -- Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 16:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Gzornenplatz ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction of some sort. The final decision in their case is here: [143] + multiple accounts permanently blocked by Jimbo.
Edits by Harvardy to micronation and Empire of Atlantium are identical to previous trolling and vandalism of these articles over many years by Wik and Gzornenplatz. The owner of these accounts is indefinitely blocked from editing Wikipedia and is openly circumventing that block.
Reported by: 125.253.33.65 05:15, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Ericsaindon2 ( talk · contribs) is banned for one year by the Arbitration Committee. The final decision in their case is here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ericsaindon2.
This user was caught by CheckUser using the sockpuppet Architect King ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) in this CheckUser request.
Please lengthen the ban on Ericsaindon2 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) to 23:51, 6 November 2007 UTC per the banning policy and the timestamp on the first diff I cited above.
Reported by: Jesse Viviano 05:16, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Butterfly123456 ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction of some sort. The final decision in their case is here.
Butterfly123456 ( talk · contribs) is a single purpose account that has only made edits on the talk page of St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine.
I believe that Butterfly123456 ( talk · contribs) is a single purpose account who only has edited to push his/her POV on the article's talk page (since the main page is protected). Per the ArbCom, this user can be blocked from editing the article and its related pages (which includes the talk page). The editor has been made aware of the notice at his/her talk page, and I was an involved party in the arbitration request.
Reported by: Leuko 19:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Ruy Lopez ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee probation for edit warring (amongst other things). The final decision in their case is here.
Ruy Lopez is current edit warring on History of Soviet espionage in the United States. Accroding to the ArbCom decision: “Any administrator may ban Ruy Lopez from an article where he is engaged in edit warring, removal of sourced material, POV reorganizations of the article or any other activity which that administrator considers disruptive.” Lopez has been removing large amounts of material, much of it sourced, some of it not sourced, claiming it was added by another banned user. When I asked him to put citation needed tags up, so I could find the relevant citation [150], he refused and continued to delete most of the article.
Reported by: Torturous Devastating Cudgel 16:33, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Messhermit was banned a while ago from editing Alberto Fujimori. After that, a whole flock of BellSouth IP addresses based in Miami, Florida started editing Alberto Fujimori. Every one of them was confirmed by checkuser to be Messhermit, see Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Messhermit. Messhermit was blocked for five days. Once again, we have Miami-based BellSouth IPs editing Alberto Fujimori, such as User:65.8.62.65. Looks like this issue might become a problem once again. -- Descendall 22:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Intangible ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction for "disrupts by tendentious editing." The final decision in their case is here: Ruling.
After a brief period of appropriate editing, User:Intangible has resumed "disrupts by tendentious editing." This primarily takes the form of idiosyncratic POV pushing reagrading the status and terminolgy used to describe various groups considered right wing by a majority of scholars.
I have been struggling with User:Intangible for days on several articles where this pattern of disruptive editing has re-appeared. If needed, I can provide other diffs that show the offending behavior. I thought that by starting with one incident, the sanction could be mild and instructive, rather than punitive. Note that the case was "Closed on 08:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)." Note the dates of the diffs cited by Intangible below. I have been attempting to get this user to abide by the arbitration decision. -- Cberlet 02:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC) Note further deletion by Intangible: Diff.-- Cberlet 02:57, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Reported by: Cberlet 16:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
<-------------The above statement by Intangible clearly demonstrates an unwillingness to abide by the guidelines regarding reputable sources established on Wikipedia. Intangible is a deletionist continuing a POV campaign to eradicate any scholarly terminology with which Intangible has any disagreement. Here is another clear example of Intangible scoffing at the terms of probation: Diff.. The position being articulated once again by Intangible is precisely the "disrupts by tendentious editing," that primarily take the form of idiosyncratic POV pushing regarding the terminolgy used to describe various groups considered "right wing" by a majority of scholars. Certainly there are matters here where more citation is required, but that is not the issue around which I am asking for enforcement of the probation through an appropriate administrative action.-- Cberlet 15:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Intangible continues to appear to not comprehend the issues involved in the arbitration nor the parameters of the probation: Diff. I am going to take a break for a few days and see if others can seek to enforce the appropriate sanctions in this matter.-- Cberlet 19:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
This user is under a one-year ArbCom ban per Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/FourthAve. This ban has been reset once.
On September 23, however, he evaded his ban under the IP 67.1.121.5 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log):
After some clarification on this issue at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Confusion_on_Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/FourthAve, it can be safe to say that the above edits constitute evasion of the one-year ban and thus requires a reset. Since I do not know of any further edits from FA, I hereby ask that someone unblock and reblock FA to September 23, 2007.
Reported by: Scob e ll302 23:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Copperchair ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction for tendentious editing on Star Wars and War on Terrorism. The editor is also currently on a 1 year and 1 day editing block (ending 2007-03-13) for violating the conditions of their probation. The final decision in their case is here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Copperchair.
Is it possible to increase Copperchair's block to indefinite and block IP range 190.10.0.XX as well? Since the 1 year and 1 day block, Copperchair has continuously violated the block and the probation via sockpuppets most originating from the indicated IP range:
Reported by: Bobblehead 04:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
SqueakBox is under Personal Attacks parole according to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/SqueakBox and Zapatancas#SqueakBox and Zapatancas . He has posted the following in his user page ( [1]): "[My main successes has been ...] restoring José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero from the POV of another user who claims to write about saints but who is determined to slur him." One of the meanings of "Hagiographer" is that, a person who writes about saints, so that paragraph is clearly an attack against me, as it's pure libel. In fact, my only activity in regard to the Zapatero article has been to revert vandalism. Hagiographer 12:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Instantnood ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction of some sort. The final decision in their case is here: [2].
This line should be a clear and brief summary. Three or four sentences at most.
This move/redirect war has been going on for months. It needs to end. Instantnood is supporting himself by endless bickering across a dozen talk pages but it's him against the world.
Reported by:
SchmuckyTheCat 20:05, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I am reporting a series of repearted incidents regarding the user called Deathrocker. This user was recently banned for removing sourced information from articles, and for making personal attacks at people who do not have accounts. This user is also on revert parole from an arbirrition case that led to him being banned for three months. This user is using a serious of ip adresses to revert any user, anmynous or registered, including admins, that change anything on articles he deems as 'his' claiming it as vandalism or restricted user changes [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]. He also just used an ip to delete someones post from an anymonous users talk page and instead leave a personal attack [12].
The point in referring this is that these ips should be checked against his account. It may also be neccesary to inforce a prolonged ban with this user from these articles, as he has grown into a habit of calling admin abuse when he is banned (see arbirittion case evidence and findings of fact), and removing large sections of text written by others on article discussion pages, claiming they are banned users. He has even done this to an admin, claiming admin abuse when the admin reverted him. This is on top of the persistant violations of his parole regarding personal attacks and using sockpuppets to perform massive reverts, which he openly admits to being his by signing them as himself [13].
This user is becoming a series tire to many users in the community, with many times admins refusing to deal with the user due to his claims of admin abuse when incidents are reported. This user also openly refuses to follow policy or respect that he does not own Wikipedia, and that articles are not just his, they are to reflect the opinions and points of all people, claiming in multiple instances that he can refuse to let others edit articles because he said so.
Here is his user contributions to give example of his estronous violations or revert parole across a series of articles [14]. He also states here on his userpage he is a sockcatcher, even though he was banned for making this account and posting this personal attack against another user. [15].
Of note also, is is that he has twice used two ips to blank a users comment from someones talk page for praising the work done by that user, leaving a personal attack, signing it as himself [16], [17].
Wether this users parole needs to revised, or more closely inforced is a matter for AE to decide. Im just reporting this user and his sock farm, as he is seriously damaging the community. Serial thrillers 17:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
The bottom line here is there is no evidence to support taking any action. The IPs provided by Leyasu are mostly from New Brunswick, Canada. I can't find any verified information on Deathrocker's location, but this checkuser case, which was returned inconclusive, compared him with a kid who uses a U.S. e-mail address and an Australian ISP. It's hard to see how that request could be inconclusive if Deathrocker was a New Brunswicker, so I have to conclude that either he has found some open proxies or there is a Death metal fan in N.B. who knows about the arbitration case. (Similarly, while Leyasu is known to edit from British Telecom, the IP addresses that has provided at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Leyasu as being improperly reverted are from completely different parts of the world, suggesting that Leyasu has also found some open proxies or has some imitators.) There just isn't enough evidence to support taking action against Deathrocker at this time. Thatcher131 (talk) 00:16, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
LossIsNotMore ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been blocked for a week for disrupting Talk:Uranium trioxide and is editing using LossIsNotMore-ur ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) to evade his ban. Dr Zak 03:29, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/SqueakBox and Zapatancas. Puts this troll bait notice here to try and force SqueakBox to break his block. It is also a personal attack on SqueakBox, which Hagiographer is banned from doing, as well as being a blatant disruption of wikipedia. I suspect I am not alone in being outraged at this attack on a fine academic by an individualo who spends all hhis time on wikipedia pursuing a vendetta, and spoiling the encyclopedia in the process, and I am editing this encyclopedia because of the bemirsching of this article. Relator 23:56, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Arbitration case: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/SqueakBox and Zapatancas#SqueakBox and Zapatancas . SqueakBox is blocked until September 22 in all the Wikipedia as he did not respect the ban imposed upon him by the mentioned arbitration case (see his block log). However, he edited the Wikipedia on September 2 ( here). Probably, because when Tony Sidaway blocked him the last time he didn't chose the "correct type of block". SqueakBox's ban has to be restarted as a consequence ensuring this time that he's banned from all the Wikipedia. Hagiographer 06:58, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Response Blocked users are permitted to edit their own talk pages. In reviewing the situation, I find the charge by Squeakbox that you altered his signature to that of a user you suspected of being his sockpuppet. Regardless of your suspicions, this was dishonest bordering on vandalism, and if I had seen it at the time I would have blocked you for it. As it was more than 2 weeks ago, and blocks are supposed to be preventative, not punative, consider this a stern warning. The fact that Squeakbox is blocked does not give you the right to abuse the situation, and your suspicions that he has dishonestly used sockpuppets does not give you the right to be dishonest in return. Thatcher131 (talk) 00:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Terryeo ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction of some sort. The final decision in their case is here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Terryeo#Final decision.
Terryeo is under an injunction not to engage in personal attacks, for which he was banned from the Scientology-related articles. Unfortunately he has continued to post innuendo about other users, using Wikipedia policy pages in an ongoing campaign. I have invited him to withdraw his attack on Raymond Hill but he has, regrettably, refused. I recommend a block, as he doesn't seem to have got the message that this is not an appropriate way to interact with other Wikipedians, and his continued misconduct is poisoning the atmosphere on a number of talk pages. (Disclaimer: I brought the original arbitration against Terryeo.) -- ChrisO 13:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I concur with ChrisO's statement. In fact, this is not an isolated instance of personal attack from Terryeo after being put on attack probation.-- Fahrenheit451 14:50, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Terryeo is making false accusations and is advised to cease.-- Fahrenheit451 00:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Not when those "online convenience links" are used to promote controversial, partison and biased websites, like the one Andries was a former webmaster for and is currently the "Main Representative, Contact and Supervisor" for. SSS108 talk- email 05:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
(For the record). See the long thread at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Dbiv and Peter Tatchell for a discussion of what to do about User:Dbiv, who has ignored the recent ArbCom ruling against him. Batmanand | Talk 21:47, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Eternal Equinox ( talk · contribs) is under Probation for one year. The final decision in their case is here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Eternal_Equinox#Final_decision.
EE is disrupting the Cool (song) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) article and its talk page Talk:Cool (song) ( | [[Talk:Talk:Cool (song)|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), which is in violation of remedy #1 of the ArbCom ruling on him: "Should they, editing under any username disrupt any page, they may be banned from that page for a brief period of time, up to a week in the event of repeat offenses."
EE's recent behaviour on this article is part of the reason why an RFAr was filed to begin with, and it's apparent that he's unwilling to change it. He considers the "Cool" article his own "baby", to be treated differently from other articles, under the control of nobody but himself (see [27] and [28]). The above description and diffs only scratch the surface; he's been edit warring on this article for months. I'm involved in this dispute, which is why I haven't temporarily banned him from this article myself.
Reported by: Extraordinary Machine 14:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Ban fully rejected. Extraordinary Machine uses excuses to introduce infactualty, nonsense that some edits are too "rich", and other ideas that my edits do not meet Wikipedia-stylized policies. Claims I have been using sock puppets (I have no idea who the 68 IP range is), and thinks I have been editing disruptively while touting the excuse "things have to be [his] way" and "it's my baby". This is ridiculous. This was actually not removed intentionally; we had an edit conflict and without surprise, Bunchofgrapes assumes (yet again) that I removed it purposely. Oh yawn, these users are beginning to grow so dull. They claim I am hard to work with again; from my view, EM is far too difficult to work with and doesn't agree with any of my views and has been recklessly reverting me as much as I am recklessly reverting him. Bunchofgrapes fails to notice this and pinpoints that only I am the cause of this issue. As a result and because here (bother to read it), I actually tried to compromise our situation and two arguments were resolved. Because I am trying to meet both our standards, and because Bunchofgrapes is stalking me after I told him to leave me alone, this ban is rejected. I sense nothing but bias.
As it currently stands, I have nothing more to edit for the day, which reprieves me somewhat. I will edit if I need to in the next "48 hours" though. 64.231.154.3 21:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
User_talk:Tony_Sidaway#Need_Help and User_talk:Tony_Sidaway#Biographies_of_living_people Andries 00:25, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
User:Hagiographer has created a new sockpuppet in defiance of his personal attack ban. [29]. Note the attack opn SqueakBox, the reference to Roberto weiss, whose article Hagiographer has already vandfdalised and his disgusting and deeply rascist reference to squeakBox's user page which Hagiographer has shown an unhealthy obsession with. I trust this depply offensive rasciost user will now be blocked. Relator 18:46, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
The block to implement the 6 month ban occured at 05:20, 31 July 2006 UTC, so its not been 6 months yet, and they are still banned. To enforce the arbitration committee's ban on the user, the accounts identified by checkuser should be blocked as an attempt at evading the ban:
Kevin_b_er 03:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Messhermit has been edit waring at the Alberto Fujimori article, while on probation: Messhermit placed on Probation for one year. Accordingly, could I request that he is no longer allowed to edit this article? Thanks, Addhoc 11:04, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
A recent Arb Comm decision Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Warren_Kinsella found that User:Arthur Ellis (aka User:Mark Bourrie, User:Ceraurus, etc., and many Ottawa IPs) used socks for tendentious editing and disruption. He was indefinitely banned from articles on Canadian politics, including Warren Kinsella and any article that mentions it. Today, two IPs 142.78.190.137 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and 64.230.111.172 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), both of which are consistent with Ellis' venues and manner (see here), defaced the Arb Comm page [67] and edited both Warren Kinsella [68] and Mark Bourrie [69] (which is covered by the ban). I reverted and protected the ArbComm decision, but given that I am involved in a new Arb Comm case involving the same editor would prefer to leave the matter to the judgement of another admin. Buck ets ofg✐ 18:14, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Bucketsofg and Thatcher's admin careers are nearing an end. See Request for Arbitration: Rachel Marsden. Don't get involved, folks. These guys are gone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.230.118.25 ( talk • contribs)
The article on Kosovo is experiencing ongoing sockpuppetry and repeated violations of an Arbitration Committee injunction. A number of ultranationalist editors are trying to change the intro to a version which asserts their (decidedly non-mainstream) POV and wipes out many other innocuous changes, such as a gallery and interwiki links. The article is currently under an ArbCom injunction, but Vezaso ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has repeatedly violated it with sockpuppet edits, so far using Dardanv ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), Palmucha ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Semarforikuq ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Kushtrimxh ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has also broken the injunction today. Vezaso sockpuppets are the main thing to look out for - if you see it being reverted to this version by a newly created user, that's almost certainly Vezaso again. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kosovo#Log of blocks and bans lists the scorecard so far. I would encourage people to add Kosovo to their watchlists to keep an eye on the situation. -- ChrisO 23:54, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
In the Encyclopaedia Metallum ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), the user Deathrocker keeps on reverting the page. He's under parole, was blocked for one day, and already reverted the page a few times after his bloc expired. Pretty much anything other users do to change his edits he calls vandalism, so all his reverts are legit, because he's fixing vandalism! The discussions with him are very long and fruitless, and I've tried all ways to reach a consensus with him (See the discussion page, last topic "A new start"), I've tried to edit the page including a mix of his edits and mine, but he always chooses to "fix vandalism" and revert the page. Thanks. Evenfiel 13:34, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Hipi Zhdripi ( talk · contribs) is under an Arbitration Committee injunction not to make disruptive edits in Kosovo or related pages. The notice of injunction is here.
Since the injunction came into force, it has repeatedly been violated by Hipi Zhdripi using anonymous IP addresses starting 172.* (dynamic IPs at his ISP) - see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kosovo/Evidence#Editors involved after start of Arbitration. His violations of the injunction are becoming increasingly frequent (at least daily now), and in addition a number of other mostly anonymous users (nationalists on both sides) have disrupted and vandalised the article repeatedly. Assistance would be appreciated in monitoring the article during the ongoing arbitration.
Reported by: ChrisO 23:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Intangible ( talk · contribs) - case: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Intangible.
Could someone have a look at the recent edits at Vlaams Belang and Bloed-Bodem-Eer en Trouw, especially the latter. I feel I'm being drawn into an edit war with Intangible again. In the latter article, he keeps removing a paragraph linking the neo nazi organisation with the Vlaams Belang, very loosely based indeed on WP:V. Thanks. Please have a word with him.
[74], [75] and [76]. (You'll find my two reverts inbetween those three.) -- LucVerhelst 18:01, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Could someone please have a friendly word with him ? Please ? [82], [83], [84], here he seems to have realised he couldn't go on on the first track, deciding to try something new : [85], [86] -- LucVerhelst 21:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
One more : [88] -- LucVerhelst 10:39, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
And these maybe on the BBET article [89], [90] and on the Neo-Nazism article [91] -- LucVerhelst 10:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
FIY, Intangible also seems to be involved in Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Neo-Fascism. -- LucVerhelst 08:25, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I feel I have been personally attacked by Intangible at [94] and [95]. I left a {{npa2}} template on his talk page. -- LucVerhelst 20:12, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Today I left the {{npa3}} template on his talk page, now I see he archived his entire talk page. Is this appropriate ? -- LucVerhelst 22:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm starting to get the feeling that Intangible is now showing behaviour that could constitute trolling. Especially when looking at Talk:Bloed, Bodem, Eer en Trouw, or this edit. Could someone look into this aspect, and confirm or deny my feeling ? Thank you. -- LucVerhelst 20:19, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Another example.-- LucVerhelst 08:28, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't see anything worth taking action for yet. Intangible's calling some of your comments "nonsense" is personal, and a mild personal attack. But the two remedies available are to block him (per the usual blocking policy), or to ban him from the articles in question (per the arbitration decision). These comments wouldn't deserve a block from another user and I'm not convinced they should in this case. Also, repeatedly tagging experienced users with {npa} templates is often viewed as not a very nice thing to do, and you certainly don't need to edit war over their removal. A few nice words is often enough, and if not, then at least you've got nothing negative on your account. Otherwise, the article talk page comments look like two people with a content dispute who have stopped listening to each other. I don't yet see any trolling.
An article ban is a blunt instrument and I'm also not sure at this time that it is warranted. Let me explain why. Although arbitration decisions deal with user behavior, I have looked into the content dispute underlying this situation. There seems to be an effort to link the Belgian political party BBET with an American professor from a fringe white supremacist movement. This is based on a French language report that in turn is drawn from sources including the professor's remarks published in an obscure 24 page 3-times a year white supremacist newsletter. The newsletter is not online but the article is copied on a blog and on BBET's web site. Technically, WP:RS policy stands behind the newspaper. The allegations that the newspaper mistranslated the professor's remarks are poorly supported since the blog and BBET site they are cached on could have been altered. No one has produced a scan of a paper copy of the newsletter that could definitively impeach the newspaper. If such a copy were produced, it would not mean the newsletter was an RS, but it would cast strong doubt on the La Libre story.
However, I question the propriety of including the claim at all, even if it is sourced per policy. This is a classic example of attempting to prove guilt by association. I'm not sure why it is necessary to try and associate a Belgian political party with a fringe American to discredit it; would we include in an article on the US Democratic Party the fact that some party officials may have been visited by a fringe French or Belgian politician who was so obscure that the visit wasn't written about for two years? Surely there are sufficient Belgian sources to write an encyclopedia article about the activities of a Belgian political party in Belgium without having to rely on guilt by association through a single questioned newspaper article. I would strongly advice you to knock off the guilt-by-association unless you have more evidence of significant contacts between BBET and American white supremacists.
Regarding Abromowitz, I wonder about a "journalist" founding an advocacy web site. American journalists aren't generally allowed to be members of advocacy groups, much less be founders. You need to be very careful in selecting sources that are reporting, not advocacy (for example, newspaper articles, but not editorials) and a reporter who is also an advocate presents a real problem.
Intangible has been sanctioned for engaging "in tendentious editing which minimizes the neo-fascist tendencies of [nationalist or right wing European political] parties." But this case is a poor example of this and does not yet (in my opinion) rise to the level of a ban. Develop better sources, and avoid guilt by association. Things BBET said or did are vastly more powerful than who they have associated with. I didn't really want to analyze the content dispute but I did; hopefully this will prove helpful to any other admin who reviews the situation. Thatcher131 04:41, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Please check out this diff, with this comment : "removed per http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/515, anything cochez writes about Belien is pretty much bull". He removes content, that is based on articles from one of the country's quality newspapers, and refers for his removal to a web log. How am I supposed to react to this ? -- LucVerhelst 15:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee has found User:Tonycdp conducting personal attacks against User:Asterion in Spanish (can be seen at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kosovo/Workshop#Personal_attack_by_Tonycdp). He is being found disruptive by the ArbCom ( User:Dmcdevit, User:Fred_Bauder, User:The_Epopt, User:Jayjg and User:Jdforrester) at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kosovo/Proposed_decision#Tonycdp_is_disruptive. I will now quote the decision of the ArbCom that was approved by the ArbCom on 14 September 2006: For the duration of this case, any of the named parties may be banned by an uninvolved administrator from Kosovo or related pages for disruptive edits. Tonycdp is a party in the Arbitration over the Kosovo article (see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kosovo#Involved_parties). He has made articles called Southern North Kosovo and West Kosovo and according to this diff disrupted the Wikipedia violating Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. I will now quote User:Consumed_Crustacean from User_talk:Tonycdp#WP:POINT: ..you may be placed on a ban from Kosovo and related articles while the arbitration case is underway. Consider that ban now active, thanks to these edits of yours. It will be lifted once the case is over, and whatever decision they make will take its place. If you create or edit any articles related to Kosovo, you will be blocked (by myself or another administrator) from editing the Wikipedia for some period of time. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 16:16, 29 September 2006 (UTC) He was thus banned from Kosovo-related articles on 29 September 2006 and the Arbitration on Kosovo still lasts. However, he violated the ban, editing Kosovo in 09:44, 3 October 2006. Then he edited Dardania (Europe) in 10:17, 3 October 2006 (which is a part of the History of Kosovo series). And then he edited Priština (capital city of Kosovo) in 10:20, 3 October 2006. I do not know if this can be applied to talk pages, but he has edited Talk:Kosovo in 09:51, 3 October 2006, 10:06, 3 October 2006, 10:26, 3 October 2006 and 15:40, 3 October 2006. According to the instructions of the administrator who banned him ( User:Consumed_Crustacean) - he is to be blocked if he violates the ban, which he did. -- PaxEquilibrium 19:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Infinity0 ( talk · contribs) is on a revert parole, however he again started to engage in edit warring on Anarchism ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) [105], [106], [107]. -- Vision Thing -- 22:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Highways, SPUI is on probation, and he can be blocked for disrupting a page. It is obvious that this, this, and this is disruption of a page. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 02:09, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Irishpunktom ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction; he is not allowed to revert more than one article per week, per this decision: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Irishpunktom#Irishpunktom_placed_on_revert_parole
In fact, Irishpunktom has been regularly reverting editors, though tending to keep it to one revert per article per day or two. As most people are not aware of the severity of his restrictions, he has been getting away with it. Jayjg (talk) 17:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Messhermit ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction; he is banned from editing the Alberto Fujimori entry. Moreover, he has continued personally attacking me Bdean1963 23 October 2006 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.45.129.106 ( talk • contribs)
I would like to request that we put this on hold for a day. I have filed an extensive complaint accusing Messhermit of being behind seven IP addresses at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Messhermit. Every single one of these IP addresses has edited Alberto Fujimori. If it turns out that these IP addresses are indeed run by Messhermit, it would be a grave breach of his ban from editing Alberto Fujimori, and we would have to move foward on that. Let's wait until a decision is made on those IPs, though. -- Descendall 09:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
In July, I was placed on probation as part of the decision in this RfA. I do not believe this decision was just, and I have chosen not to participate as an editor at Wikipedia rather than continue editing while subject to an unjust probation. In the nearly four months since that decision, I believe, subsequent events have demonstrated rather starkly that arbitrator Fred Bauder's initial assessment of the cause of the dispute was correct, and that JohnnyBGood, Rschen7754, and I should never have been placed on probation in relation to this matter. In addition, the underlying dispute has been harmoniously resolved, which suggests that the need for probation, assuming such need ever existed in the first place, has now ended. Accordingly, I request that this probation be formally lifted. Thank you. — phh ( t/ c) 00:40, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm starting a new subject header because this is totally independent of Bdean1963's complaint that Messhermit is uncivil.
Messhermit was placed on probation and banned from editing articles about the conflict between Peru and Ecuador (See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Messhermit). However, he continued to edit Paquisha War, a war between Peru and Ecuador, as User:147.70.124.109 [108].
As part of his probation, Messhermit was banned from editing Alberto Fujimori [109]. However, he edited that article fifteen times after he was informed of the ban: once as User:147.70.153.139 [110], once as User:74.225.187.18 [111], once as User:147.70.153.117 [112], twice as User:65.2.103.216 [113] [114], three times as User:147.70.124.59 [115] [116] [117], three times as User:74.225.227.204 [118] [119] [120], three times as User:68.215.109.135 [121] [122] [123], and once under his own name [124].
Please note that all of these IPs addresses have been confirmed as his at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Messhermit.
Even if he wasn't banned from editing these articles, he would still be edit warring.
Because these edits constiture such blatant and persistant violations of his arbitration and probation, I think something ought to be done. -- Descendall 00:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
A user that has had more than one account, one being User:Nobs01, one being User:Nobs, and perhaps some others with the letters "Nobs" in them was banned by ArbCom - Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Nobs01_and_others. He is not supposed to edit until December. However, I have noticed IPs which are editing the same area of interest Nobs was always interested in, in the same slant Nobs always edited in, namely the idea that every other liberal in the US from the 1930s to the 1950s in the US was a Soviet spy.
All of the Nobs-like edits have been coming from the IP range 4.240.x.x, some from 4.240.123.x, some from 4.240.186.x. I've also seen a few from other 4.240.x.x ranges that look like him
Probable Nobs ones I've seen so far -
IP's: [125] [126] [127] [128] [129] [130] [131]
If you compare Nobs01's edits to the edits from users from the IP range they use the same type of language and have the same odd obsessions (COINTELPRO proves everyone was a spy, citing Haynes and Klehr all the time etc.) Having dealt with Nobs so much, I know this is him, but for those not as familiar, you will probably have to do some comparing. I am also fairly confident that there are 4.240.x.x IPs I have missed that he is using. Ruy Lopez 23:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
TDC ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction of some sort. The final decision in their case is here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Depleted_uranium#TDC_placed_on_revert_parole.
"TDC is hereby limited to 1 content revert per article per day and must discuss all content reverts on the relevant talk page for one year. He may be briefly blocked for up to a week for violations. After 5 such blocks the maximum block time increases to a year."
I believe this user has willfully engaged in disruptive and antagonistic behavior, the kind explicitly advised against by the new WP:DE#Dealing_with_disruptive_editors guideline. He has done so more than once and been warned since he was put on parole; see more violations. I didn't realize the seriousness of the matter until I read his talk page, where I also see a lot of fishing for votes. I see five violations after a casual read...what will it take to stop a determined vandal?
Reported by: [[ Xiner 03:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)|Xiner]]
A new edit war has started over the introducion of the Kosovo ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) article (which is under article probation: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kosovo#Kosovo related articles on Article probation). It involves quite a number of editors, some of which have reverted each other multiple times (below are only the editors which reverted more than once):
Removing introduction text multiple times:
Adding introduction text multiple times:
Perhaps an administrator can have a look at this and take appropriate action, the arbitration case dealt specifically with revert warring on the introduction of that article, although none of these editors was involved at that time. These three editors have been informed of this report on their talk pages. -- Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 16:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Gzornenplatz ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction of some sort. The final decision in their case is here: [143] + multiple accounts permanently blocked by Jimbo.
Edits by Harvardy to micronation and Empire of Atlantium are identical to previous trolling and vandalism of these articles over many years by Wik and Gzornenplatz. The owner of these accounts is indefinitely blocked from editing Wikipedia and is openly circumventing that block.
Reported by: 125.253.33.65 05:15, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Ericsaindon2 ( talk · contribs) is banned for one year by the Arbitration Committee. The final decision in their case is here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ericsaindon2.
This user was caught by CheckUser using the sockpuppet Architect King ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) in this CheckUser request.
Please lengthen the ban on Ericsaindon2 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) to 23:51, 6 November 2007 UTC per the banning policy and the timestamp on the first diff I cited above.
Reported by: Jesse Viviano 05:16, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Butterfly123456 ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction of some sort. The final decision in their case is here.
Butterfly123456 ( talk · contribs) is a single purpose account that has only made edits on the talk page of St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine.
I believe that Butterfly123456 ( talk · contribs) is a single purpose account who only has edited to push his/her POV on the article's talk page (since the main page is protected). Per the ArbCom, this user can be blocked from editing the article and its related pages (which includes the talk page). The editor has been made aware of the notice at his/her talk page, and I was an involved party in the arbitration request.
Reported by: Leuko 19:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Ruy Lopez ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee probation for edit warring (amongst other things). The final decision in their case is here.
Ruy Lopez is current edit warring on History of Soviet espionage in the United States. Accroding to the ArbCom decision: “Any administrator may ban Ruy Lopez from an article where he is engaged in edit warring, removal of sourced material, POV reorganizations of the article or any other activity which that administrator considers disruptive.” Lopez has been removing large amounts of material, much of it sourced, some of it not sourced, claiming it was added by another banned user. When I asked him to put citation needed tags up, so I could find the relevant citation [150], he refused and continued to delete most of the article.
Reported by: Torturous Devastating Cudgel 16:33, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Messhermit was banned a while ago from editing Alberto Fujimori. After that, a whole flock of BellSouth IP addresses based in Miami, Florida started editing Alberto Fujimori. Every one of them was confirmed by checkuser to be Messhermit, see Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Messhermit. Messhermit was blocked for five days. Once again, we have Miami-based BellSouth IPs editing Alberto Fujimori, such as User:65.8.62.65. Looks like this issue might become a problem once again. -- Descendall 22:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Intangible ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction for "disrupts by tendentious editing." The final decision in their case is here: Ruling.
After a brief period of appropriate editing, User:Intangible has resumed "disrupts by tendentious editing." This primarily takes the form of idiosyncratic POV pushing reagrading the status and terminolgy used to describe various groups considered right wing by a majority of scholars.
I have been struggling with User:Intangible for days on several articles where this pattern of disruptive editing has re-appeared. If needed, I can provide other diffs that show the offending behavior. I thought that by starting with one incident, the sanction could be mild and instructive, rather than punitive. Note that the case was "Closed on 08:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)." Note the dates of the diffs cited by Intangible below. I have been attempting to get this user to abide by the arbitration decision. -- Cberlet 02:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC) Note further deletion by Intangible: Diff.-- Cberlet 02:57, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Reported by: Cberlet 16:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
<-------------The above statement by Intangible clearly demonstrates an unwillingness to abide by the guidelines regarding reputable sources established on Wikipedia. Intangible is a deletionist continuing a POV campaign to eradicate any scholarly terminology with which Intangible has any disagreement. Here is another clear example of Intangible scoffing at the terms of probation: Diff.. The position being articulated once again by Intangible is precisely the "disrupts by tendentious editing," that primarily take the form of idiosyncratic POV pushing regarding the terminolgy used to describe various groups considered "right wing" by a majority of scholars. Certainly there are matters here where more citation is required, but that is not the issue around which I am asking for enforcement of the probation through an appropriate administrative action.-- Cberlet 15:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Intangible continues to appear to not comprehend the issues involved in the arbitration nor the parameters of the probation: Diff. I am going to take a break for a few days and see if others can seek to enforce the appropriate sanctions in this matter.-- Cberlet 19:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
This user is under a one-year ArbCom ban per Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/FourthAve. This ban has been reset once.
On September 23, however, he evaded his ban under the IP 67.1.121.5 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log):
After some clarification on this issue at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Confusion_on_Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/FourthAve, it can be safe to say that the above edits constitute evasion of the one-year ban and thus requires a reset. Since I do not know of any further edits from FA, I hereby ask that someone unblock and reblock FA to September 23, 2007.
Reported by: Scob e ll302 23:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Copperchair ( talk · contribs) is under Arbitration Committee sanction for tendentious editing on Star Wars and War on Terrorism. The editor is also currently on a 1 year and 1 day editing block (ending 2007-03-13) for violating the conditions of their probation. The final decision in their case is here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Copperchair.
Is it possible to increase Copperchair's block to indefinite and block IP range 190.10.0.XX as well? Since the 1 year and 1 day block, Copperchair has continuously violated the block and the probation via sockpuppets most originating from the indicated IP range:
Reported by: Bobblehead 04:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)